Former President Pranab Mukherjee has suffered a septic shock in the course of his lung infection treatment.
Tribune News Service
New Delhi, August 31
Former President Pranab Mukherjee died at 84 on Monday, his son announced on Twitter.
“With a heavy Heart, this is to inform you that my father Shri Pranab Mukherjee has just passed away inspite of the best efforts of doctors of RR Hospital & prayers,duas & prarthanas from people throughout India ! I thank all of you. His son, Abhijeet Mukherjee, said.
Army Research and Referral Hospital said in a bulletin on earlier on Monday that the ex- President’s condition has declined since yesterday.
“There is a decline in the medical condition of Shri Pranab Mukherjee since yesterday. He is in septic shock due to his lung infection and is being managed by team of specialists. He continues to be in deep coma and on ventilator support,” said doctors.
Mukherjee was admitted to the Army’s Research and Referral Hospital in Delhi Cantonment on August 10 and was operated for removal of a clot in the brain the same day.
He had also tested positive for COVID-19.
He developed a lung infection later and is being treated at the hospital.
Pranab Mukherjee was the 13th President of India from 2012 to 2017.